In the past five years, only a handful of movies have really earned the label “blockbuster” in spirit, not just…
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The toaster that pops in Ruth Goldman’s (Kathleen Chalfant) immaculate kitchen early on in Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” might as…
You don’t need to know the exact dimensions of someone’s grief to feel the shape it leaves behind. In “The…
“Mississippi Burning” is a 1988 film that depicts the unrest and violence of the Freedom Summer. Set in a sweltering…
After making many of us shed tears until our eyes ran dry with “Past Lives,” acclaimed stage director and Oscar-nominated…
Wes Anderson is an auteur working on his own level and landscape, with nobody being able to come close to…
It takes a rare kind of empathy to direct a film that observes hardship through the gaze of a child—one…
Trapped in a loveless marriage and repulsed by the repetitive need to conform, Uma (Radhika Apte), a newly wed bride,…
A curious trend emerged across several films at this year’s Tribeca Festival: characters retreating to places not just to escape,…
By now, the image of a couple—or two—retreating into the wilderness for a therapeutic weekend has gone from serious indie…